It won't. There've been sales before all this tracking. Only thing it threatens is raising the price arbitrarily for individuals.
Can you imagine as an old person you hang outside of a grocery store: psst, hey kid I'll give you a dollar to go buy me some back medicine. They know my card number and its 50% cheaper if you buy it for me.
Boo fuckin' hoo.
Charge what you need for a modest net profit. Surveillance pricing is just the perfect refinement of capitalist cruelty.
[X] Doubt.
It's more of a threat than the warning they are pretending it is.
Won't somebody think of the scammers?!
Oh those poor scammers wont be able to rake in millions of extra dollars.
I'd consider that a worthwhile trade.
Now do a ban on rent surveillance and any system that uses “data” to “adjust” rent.
Off with their heads. Metaphorically.
"Metaphorically."
These people depend on us having goldfish memory… they be right to a great extent.
For the record, goldfish have perfectly capable memories and can even be taught tricks and remember them years later.
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